"A deusa do lar”: ideal feminino no contexto da modernização em São Luís nas décadas de 1930 a 1950

Abstract

Study about the feminine ideal in the context of modemization in São Luís in the decades from 1930 to 1950, aimed at analyzing the outbreak of modemization that marked this period and discourses about the feminine related to entrance of women into public spaces, with the strengthening of the ideal woman, mother, wife and homemaker. The leaders of Maranhão in the period from 1930 to 1950, especially the interventionists, represented the political orientation of the central power, closely foliowing the guidelines of the govemment's ideology of Vargas, where family, work and horne were the pillars, and retrieving values concepts related to religion, morais and discipline. The woman represented an important instrument in modemizing project and disciplinarian govemment, while the mother was a Citizen, who was preparing the future citizens of the country, responsible for family harmony and the maintenance of the moral values of society. Therefore, the importance of keeping it at home, in child care and under the 'protection' of her husband.